A digital master (Redbook included) will be a technically superior source (in terms of even frequency response, available dynamic range, pitch stability, low distortion, within the audible band) than analog tape ever could be.

Have you ever heard any claims that vinyl now sounds better than it ever has thanks to hi-res digital masters?

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Breath is found in waveform and spectral plots;DR figures too, of course.

Even if it happens most of the time or a lot of the time or much of the time

It only has to happen regularly.

QUOTE (Engelsstaub @ Feb 27 2013, 14:06)

it seems at odds with the only things presented here from modern record companies.

Ahem, things?!? Somehow examples given by David don't count? Please realize that some of them even rise above the level of anecdote.

QUOTE (Engelsstaub @ Feb 27 2013, 14:06)

When Porcus calmly asked a moderator to explain his statement that "AFAIC, opinions about what constitutes professionalism from a non-professional should be dismissed."

First, he didn't ask me to explain anything. Second, calmly? How can you divine such a thing? Was it because he told me to "C'mon"? No, he chose to ask me if my statement should be taken out of the context of this discussion. I chose to ignore his off-topic troll-bait.

Look, there hasn't been one active person in this discussion to agree with you on just about anything having to do with your outrage that vinyl may have been pressed from redbook. I suggest you cut your losses now.

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Reason for edit: Made a comment about your ambiguous use of the word Nyquist, but removed it.

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Breath is found in waveform and spectral plots;DR figures too, of course.

Even if it happens most of the time or a lot of the time or much of the time

It only has to happen regularly.

QUOTE (Engelsstaub @ Feb 27 2013, 14:06)

it seems at odds with the only things presented here from modern record companies.

Ahem, things?!? Somehow examples given by David don't count?

QUOTE (Engelsstaub @ Feb 27 2013, 14:06)

When Porcus calmly asked a moderator to explain his statement that "AFAIC, opinions about what constitutes professionalism from a non-professional should be dismissed."

First, he didn't ask me to explain anything. Second, calmly? How can you divine such a thing? Was it because he told me to "C'mon"? No, he chose to ask me if my statement should be taken out of the context of this discussion. I chose to ignore his off-topic troll-bait.

Look, there hasn't been one active person in this discussion to agree with you on just about anything. I suggest you cut your losses now.

It can't even be said that it happens regularly.

Yes, things. Kees de Visser's example was a thing as well. The example of the Beatles was 24/44.1...that is not by definition Redbook. Golly gee, I wish you'd just be honest in your responses because I know you knew that.

"...taken out of the context of this discussion." What was the context then? You're seemingly incapable of ignoring a legitimate question unless it's "ignore through condescension."

By "one active person" you must mean people who will take the time to return to this mess of insults presided over by yourself. I count at least three who tried to add productively to my side of the issue. David, who disagrees, in my opinion has tried as well without resulting to childishness, arrogance, and insult.

I suggested that you step down since you can't act like a moderator, moderate insults, or stop with your petty grudges against certain members who've crossed you in the past. That's not going to happen though due to your ego and refusal to just say "I'm sorry for insulting you instead of moderating" (unless you're amending a comment long after you've made it in an attempt to cover yourself over insults. That's not a conspiracy; anyone can go back in the thread and see it along with your edits of almost everything for whatever reason.)

If by "cutting your losses" you also mean not answering one more word of Kruger's or your condescending, arrogant, and insulting shit in this thread consider it as of now done. I know you really mean you don't want me to reply to this thread any further. Done.

I'm under the impression that the latest technology high speed wide track analog tape without noise reduction can achieve approximately 11 or 12 bit performance (66-72 dB). Dolby SR noise reduction is claimed to improve that by 25 dB for a total of 91 to 97 dB. That corresponds to 15-16 bits.

"In the late 70s there was also the German Telefunken-made HighCom NR system, a broadband compander, which was technically very advanced and reached a signal-to-noise ratio in the range of a CD (approximately 100 dB)."

Anything else being argued (the game is rigged, the moderator is a cheat, people are being mean to me) are all diversions of the real issue at hand: this entire thread stemmed from the religious belief that redbook isn't good enough to source vinyl.

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Breath is found in waveform and spectral plots;DR figures too, of course.

"...just interpreting the technical papers would be well beyond your competence with audio technology, as basic chores as they are." ...arrogance is one thing. My only response to this (since it's going unmoderated as well) is you can take your past psychoanalysis, present English-lesson, and this little morsel here and shove them. You must be a sad little man if you think you know people based on some internet comments. If I were to sit and pretend I know who you are and what you're capable of I'd first ask you if you even went outside yet today.

Out of context quote followed by an attempt at a diversion from the issue at hand.

What I actually wrote is:

"Just guessing, but I suspect that doing the lab work or even just interpreting the technical papers would be well beyond your competence with audio technology, as basic chores as they are."

Operative words being guessing and suspect.

The anger that was tapped by mere guessing and suspicion pretty much answers any questions I may have had.

"In 1978, Sound 80 Records of Minneapolis records "Flim and the BB's" (S80-DLR-102) directly to digital before pressing the vinyl LP. The mastering engineer is Bob Berglund. The recording system is a 3M Digital Audio Mastering System."

Emil Berliner Studios has re-introduced vinyl mastering a few years ago.One of the options is direct-to-disc vinyl, which seems to offer higher-than-redbook quality audio, at least in theory.Looking at their analogue suite equipment, it seems also rather likely that hi-res audio is quite common. Plenty of DAW's and analog gear.

I'm not familiar with exactly what DTD offers in theory, but I see nothing on that site at that suggests 'higher-than-redbook' quality for their DTD vinyl.

'Higher than redbook quality' would mean, to me, at minimum, a dynamic range better than ~96dB, a ruler-flat frequency response from 0 to beyond ~20 kHz, as well as the zero interchannel bleed, perfect pitch stability and ultra-low distortion offered by CDs

Emil Berliner Studios has re-introduced vinyl mastering a few years ago.One of the options is direct-to-disc vinyl, which seems to offer higher-than-redbook quality audio, at least in theory.Looking at their analogue suite equipment, it seems also rather likely that hi-res audio is quite common. Plenty of DAW's and analog gear.

I'm not familiar with exactly what DTD offers in theory, but I see nothing on that site at that suggests 'higher-than-redbook' quality for their DTD vinyl.

'Higher than redbook quality' would mean, to me, at minimum, a dynamic range better than ~96dB, a ruler-flat frequency response from 0 to beyond ~20 kHz, as well as the zero interchannel bleed, perfect pitch stability and ultra-low distortion offered by CDs

Their DTD vinyl products *might* have one of those, but all of them?

The process before the vinyl should have be capable of all of those characteristics since there is no intermediate storage medium. The disc itself, yes, will not. I think the real advantage to this process is a musical one rather than a technical one - it's pretty fun going straight to two track with decent musicians when they have to give their all and can't rely on studio wizardry to "correct" the human performances.

The process before the vinyl should have be capable of all of those characteristics since there is no intermediate storage medium. The disc itself, yes, will not. I think the real advantage to this process is a musical one rather than a technical one - it's pretty fun going straight to two track with decent musicians when they have to give their all and can't rely on studio wizardry to "correct" the human performances.

But no one disputes that vinyl can be and has been cut from 'hi rez' masters . The only dispute here, if any, is how often this happens, and whether this has any audible benefits when the rock is scraped over the plastic disc in the listener's home.

As for the excitement of direct to disc performance, well, for me it would depend *a lot* on who is doing the playing, and what the music is. As a player myself, I'm not all that enamored of listening to live mistakes. I make enough of them on my own, thanks